Car-coupling



R M A L R W OAR 0002mm. No. 492,029.

Patented Feb. 21, 1893.

(June/Mex ail/omen, 5

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM P. LAMP, OF BROWNSVILLE, ILLINOIS.

CAR-COUPLING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 492,029, dated February 21, 1893.

Application filed April 22, 1892. Serial No. 430,206. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that 1, WILLIAM P. LAMP, of Brownsville, in the county of White and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oar-Coupling Devices; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The special object of my invention is to make a car-couplercouple automatically, and uncouple easily from the car on either side thereof or from the top of said car with perfect safety to the brakeman during the operation.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view of the end of a car and drawhead with my invention applied, and the invention may be applied in the same manner to a fiat car without attaching to it the vertical rod Y. Fig.2 is a longitudinal vertical section of the drawhead. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the pin supportingslide.

In the drawings 0 represents a car and D its drawhead secured in anymanner preferred. In a longitudinal hole in the drawhead extending inwardly from the mouth, I arrange a slide S, pressed forward by a spiral-spring T, and held in proper position to support the pin P by a lateral bar B passing under the projecting metal plate M attached to the upper side of the slide S in any suitable manner. The coupling pin P passes through the hole in the top of the draw-head and rests upon the metal plate in thus being held in upright position.

Y is a vertical rod connected with the horizontal lever X X extending through a staple 'n to the top of the car being provided with a handle at its upper end to enable the brakeman, while on top of the car, to raise the coupling pin P.

X X is a horizontal lever passing through guide staples W W and attached to the coupling pin P by the connecting link N thus en abling the brakeman to couple or uncouple the cars from either side of the car. It will be seen that when the slide S and projecting metal plate M are pressed back by the coupling-pin L there is no support for the pin P and it must necessarily fall into the link L, and the said link L is held in a rigid and horizontal position having its rear end pressed tightly against the pin P by the spring slide S. When the slide S is not pressed back by the link then it is held in the proper position to support the pin P being pressed against the cross bar B by the spring T.

Having thus described my inventiou,what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a car coupling, the combinationwith the recessed drawhead, of the longitudinally movable slide S having secured to its upper side the forwardly projecting plate M, the cross-bar B secured transversely in the drawhead forward of the slide S, and beneath the projecting plate M, and the coiled spring T arranged in rear of said slide substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination with the coupling pin P of the link N and the looped horizontal lever X X and the vertical rod Y-attached to'loop of said lever X X as in and for the purposes herein and before described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM P. LAMP.

Witnesses:

NATHANIEL HOLDERLY, F. W. WINNER. 

